Strength in Weakness???

Originally Posted by RamyaVaradharajan

Dear most Shanthi ma'am,

Should I call it the need of the hour or an apt coincidence !!! I was going ahead with my SWOT (Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats) analysis yesterday and trying to evaluate whether I had tried (or trying) to overcome or at least paralleled my weaknesses. As the river winds through the precipitous gorge, your post filled my nerves with steep attention, calling in for an appropriate consideration.

Very neatly said. Now, I remember a mail that was forwarded by my one of friends to me. Though will not go in depth, I will highlight the essence of it. The whole mail revolved around "understanding the concept of God". It was a set of questions and answers, wherein a student posed the question tags and was replied by his professor. One such question will be relevant to our topic here.

Is there anything called darkness ?? The answer draws a beautiful conclusion to the whole concept. "The absence of light is what we term as darkness". As such in reality, there is no such darkness that could prevail. In the same way, absence of a particular strength is what we term as weakness. Weakness can be diluted completely once strength is gained. One need not go in search of a "strength" within themselves. As you have rightly put it ma'am, if we are aware of our weakness(es), there decays the enmity !! Intellectual deficiencies can be easily tackled once they are tracked.

Weakness(es) should not be allowed to breed over. When let, they make life strenuous and miserable (especially in this word of cut-throat competition). Rather, continuous assessment of past and present records which dates to our performance levels should be stocked. We will be truly benefited if our performance graph shows a Sigmoid curve without the "death phase". (Sigmoid curve is generally drawn as the growth curve of bacterias. It consists of four phases: Lag, Log or exponential, Stationary and Death).

If we take real world examples, almost all interviews are fired off with "strengths and weaknesses" questions. Being experienced personally just a couple of months back, I know the impact that leaves the interviewer if our weakness column peaks than that of our strengths. The immediate reflex question being, "have you taken measures to overcome your weakness(es)"??; we should be on the safer side to justify our own selves; else "cat on the wall situation" !!! Our "strengths" and "transformed (form weaknesses to) strengths" always compliments our character per se.

Knitting our strengths and capabilities from the weakness(es) that once spread like a web are the real attributes one should watch out for. Once this is cultivated, the moral affirmation and firmness will spread gradually within us thereby making us "evolve" in tune with the internal (personal self)and external demands (community at large).

Regards
RamyaVaradharajan

Ramya,

Thanks for a detailed reply. you are right about interviews being based on weakness and strengths...and now adays you have workshops that teach you how to tackle those questions.

Originally Posted by padmavathi m

shanti,

i read everything you post on IL but dont attempt to reply because i am not that much good in writing my views. of course i can talk hours together,

at many times i want to post something and sit back without writing, but that same topic is posted by you. it makes me wonder how my thoughts gets refracted.

as you know krithi's weakness in all subjects is her strength. she is excellent in maths, now her teachers want to enroll her for the international maths olympiads..............

cheers
padma

Padma,

The more we write, the more we become better. I feel you write well. why do you say you are not that good.

For me these topics just happen. I don't chose topics.

I believe god compensates kids like my DS, krithis and all gives them something that is extraoridnary.and in krithis case it is logical thinking and application maybe...


I am really happy for her...all the best for her olympiad...let her appear..do encourage her...she will win...

Hello Shanthi,
Wonderful thread and makes everybody to change ourselves from having low esteem to higher esteem.
Great going....

~Punitha

dear punitha,

thank you.

very true shanthi our weakness can be our strength, wonderful post as usual..sunkan

hi sunkan,

Thanks a lot for stepping in.